ashmud

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"Oft as not, in talk or script, we'll force the use of some long hard word, and with it, blunt the keen edge and dull the sharp point of what we want to say." - H. Phelps Gates
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From the article: "[Ron Milner] remembered showing it off to some buddies at a county fair when the game first came out, but that was 40 years ago!"

Perhaps it did?

Comment · 9 years ago
How does this compare to Nissan (US), also non-union?
Comment · 9 years ago
Parchives. Great for adding recovery to any file. :) I use them [now par2cmdline-tbb] religiously for archives. I started doing this years ago after having CD-R's burned on a drive (Plextor, no less) that I started having a hard time reading on any other drive.
Comment · 9 years ago
Bitdefender likes to revert to default settings frequently. I prefer Windows Firewall (Win7) and have to turn off the Bitdefender firewall usually at least once a week.
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They can. I bought a Roku 3 after seeing how much more responsive it was compared to my Sony BDP-S790 for streaming apps.
Comment · 9 years ago
Paris, even though it may not be what is pictured, is also what I immediately thought of, from the GP's second link.
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A regional (to me) real estate web site that we had to work with had a data service that output XML. It was naively implemented and managed to output malformed XML. Mostly in the form of a CSV field crammed into an XML field with non-conformant XML markup.
Comment · 10 years ago
Employee IDs. That is [not even close to] all. Sadly.
Comment · 10 years ago
A few jobs ago (factory automation), we had a story from one of our projects where a device (would have been a PLC or relay panel) was failing. Rather than dust, metal filings had gotten into the case and were shorting out connections. A "quick" cleanup, and the device was working again.
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